re: #366 Slumbering Behemoth

I can’t decide which is a worse form of child abuse: being raised on Ayn Rand or being raised on fundamentalist dogma?

I assume you mean religious fundamentalist dogma.

All other things being equal, I don’t know. I mean, you can get on perfectly fine without Ayn Rand later in life. Many people get on fine without religion as well, but I tend to see it as a potentially better experience than Rand.

I think I’d have to say being raised on Ayn Rand. Some forms of fundamentalism do seem to give people some cover for being dicks, but at least in most forms of religion, being a dick isn’t the main IDEA.